WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 -- Sen. Chris Murphy issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) released the following statement in response to Donald Trump launching an illegal war with Iran:
"Trump's attacks on Iran are dangerously illegal and a mistake of staggering scale. Has he learned nothing from decades of U.S. military disaster in the Middle East? Has he spent not one single minute studying the lives lost and trillions wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria and Libya? The American public does not want our President dragging us into another totally unnecessary conflict in a far-off land. They want him to focus on American lives - lives that are being ruined by an economy beset by flat wages, disappearing jobs, r...